Newton as Philosopher
Newton as Philosopher by Andrew Janiak, published by Cambridge University Press on September 9, 2010, is a comprehensive exploration of Isaac Newton’s philosophical contributions. This edition, comprising 210 pages, delves into Newton’s complex views that challenge easy categorization. Throughout his career from the early 1670s until his death in 1727, Newton engaged deeply with the ideas of his contemporaries, including René Descartes and G. W. Leibniz, offering profound responses to the prevailing mechanical philosophy of his time.
Readers will find a detailed examination of Newton’s unique approach to natural philosophy, highlighting his systematic yet non-systematic method of inquiry. The book presents a nuanced picture of nature and humanity’s place within it, as well as its relationship to the creator. This scholarly work is positioned to attract those interested in the intersections of philosophy, science, and history, providing insights into the evolution of philosophical thought during a pivotal era.
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Newton’s philosophical views are unique and uniquely difficult to categorise. In the course of a long career from the early 1670s until his death in 1727, he articulated profound responses to Cartesian natural philosophy and to the prevailing mechanical philosophy of his day. Newton as Philosopher presents Newton as an original and sophisticated contributor to natural philosophy, one who engaged with the principal ideas of his most important predecessor, René Descartes, and of his most influential critic, G. W. Leibniz. Unlike Descartes and Leibniz, Newton was systematic and philosophical without presenting a philosophical system, but over the course of his life, he developed a novel picture of nature, our place within it, and its relation to the creator. This rich treatment of his philosophical ideas, the first in English for thirty years, will be of wide interest to historians of philosophy, science, and ideas.
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